🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2024-12-03
Exploring the rise of open-source AI and the shift away from traditional search engines.
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Two hot takes on two stories that caught my eye on Tuesday.
💰 + 🍪 Open-source? Check. RISC-V? Check. Provocative investors? Check. The growing appetite for anything open and remotely usable for AI purposes (that isn’t NVIDIA) is real.
Techmeme: Toronto-based AI chip designer Tenstorrent raised a $700M Series D from Jeff Bezos, Samsung, and more at a ~$2.6B valuation and claims nearly $150M in contracts (Bloomberg)
From Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
💰 + 🤖 Imagine taking $700M after a pivot. Now, imagine the moment when “Google Search” and “Search Engine” will become an archaic reference from a forgotten time of Interweb lore.
Techmeme: Amsterdam-based Nebius, which rebranded itself from Russian internet giant Yandex and offers cloud services for AI, raised $700M from Nvidia, Accel, and others (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
By Mark Bergen / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
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